Sunday, October 21, 2012

Ciao! Scavenger Hunt Sunday…

My reentry into real life after our trip to Italy has been a
bit on the busy side, so instead of driving myself nuts trying to find new things to shoot, I thought I would look at my pics from our recent trip
there to see if I could find good entries for this week’s Scavenger Hunt. Since I took over 1,000 photos, you wouldn’t
think that would be much of a challenge and I will admit, there were entries
that jumped out at me immediately for each prompt: Orange or Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, Faceless Portrait, View from the Top, Cozy and Stacked. Here are my entries:

Faceless Portrait: These
are our friends Sean and Ellen, two of the eight of us who got together and
rented a villa in Italy. This villa
called Villa Miragalli was just beautiful.
Here, Sean is standing at the edge of the infinity pool looking out over
the Tyrrhenian Sea and Ellen is just enjoying the view. I didn’t realize when I took the photo that
the light at that moment would make the color of the pool reflect onto Sean’s
back. That’s an odd effect.

View from the Top: One
of the views from our villa. This looks
out toward Praiano, Italy, which you can see on the furthest peninsula.

Cozy: That’s what I would call the boats they put you
in to take you into the Blue Grotto in Capri.
I knew I couldn’t get in and out of the boat so I stayed behind but took
this picture of Greg (far right), our friend Fred, the fellow who rowed them
into the grotto and a young English woman whose mother also stayed behind.

Stacked: This is Positano, Italy. It is a truly vertical city and that gives
the impression that these buildings are stacked on top of one another. In reality, there are roads that run through
the layers of buildings there. Isn’t it
beautiful!

About Me

I am Barb Hale and this is my photography blog. I started this blog for the sole purpose of sharing my photography with others. I am an amateur photographer who is constantly learning. And I so enjoy the simple act of taking a photo. I hope you enjoy my work.

My father left a legacy of thousands of photos and slides behind when he passed. Most were snaps of family and friends. I probably inherited my love of taking pictures from him but I don’t take many pics of people. I prefer photographing things and bits of nature.

Confucius said, “Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.” I accept that statement as truth. There is beauty all around you if you bother to look. There is beauty in the mundane and commonplace…and sometimes there is even perfection.